[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from Saturday's episode of Black Sails. Read at your own risk.]Look who's back!Saturday's episode of Black Sails opened with a member of England's Royal Navy torturing a man on the beach. The man in question? The believed-to-be-dead Billy Bones (

And now for the speech.For two weeks, Gov. Bruce Rauner has gone around the state outlining the problems he said face Illinois and for which he said he will offer detailed solutions in his State of the State message.He'll have that...

ROCKFORD — Freeport’s steady march upward in the NIC-10 stopped when the Pretzels neared the summit.Freeport entered the weekend with six wins in seven games, with a two-point loss to Boylan the only blemish, but was routed...

RIVER RIDGE — Brenden Dauphin scored nine of his 22 points in the fourth quarter to lead River Ridge to a 52-50 comeback win against Eastland in Saturday’s basketball game.Eastland led 38-34 after three quarters. Behind...

FREEPORT — Heather Cornelius, a Freeport High School computer-aided design teacher, last year saw promise in one of her students, Scott Larson. With some connections she had made over the years, she was able to help him land a...